Last week, I presented "An Introduction to Cloud Computing" for two hours to the local Institute of Management Accountants [ IMA ] for their Continuing Professional Education [ CPE ]. Since I present IBM's leadership in Cloud Storage offerings, I...

There's a Cloud Computing for Developers virtual workshop taking place on October 1. Hosted by technical evangelists at Amazon Web Services and IBM it will cover topics such what you need to know start writing cloud applications and some of the benefits, as...

Continuing my coverage of the Data Center Conference 2009, held Dec 1-4 in Las Vegas, the title of this session refers to the mess of "management standards" for Cloud Computing.
The analyst quickly reviewed the concepts of IaaS (Amazon EC2, for...

I get this question all the time. As we have discussed before, Db2 Warehouse provides a software defined architecture, quickly adapting to the pool of compute, storage and networking resources. It is this trait of the software that makes it really...

Permissions for accessing MQ functions have traditionally relied on using operating system definitions for users and groups. That could mean you having a requirement to define those users and groups on each system individually, which is challenging enough in a...

In this final(?) blog entry of a series, I'm going to show how you can monitor MQ queue managers using Amazon's CloudWatch service. Previous blog entries The earlier blog entries in this sequence include The basics of using the Go...

In this blog post I'll be demonstrating how install, configure, and view data in a new IBM produced monitoring solution -- all in under 5 minutes flat after downloading the installation media. About IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Application Insight
At Blue...